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EIM Global Research and Collaboration Center

Welcome to the EIMGRCC!

Concept and Rationale:Physical inactivity is a leading cause of poor health, mortality and higher health care costs in the US and throughout the world. However, too few health systems and health care providers routinely include physical activity (PA) as part of the prevention and management of chronic diseases.

For 5 years, the Exercise is Medicine (EIM) initiative of the American College of Sports Medicine has helped build local networks to support the systematic integration of PA as a vital sign and a routine component of health care system’s implementation of population health management and the prevention and treatment of chronic diseases in the US and globally via the EIM Solution.

Large-scale implementation of the EIM Solution across different populations, settings and health care systems is a complex process. Accordingly EIM, in collaboration with Emory University Rollins School of Public Health has established the EIM-GRCC, the academic hub in charge of leading the evaluation of the EIM initiative in collaboration with partnering health care systems, community organizations, fitness and technology companies.

Led by EIM advisory board member,Dr Felipe Lobelo, and housed within theGlobal Diabetes Research Centerat Emory’s Hubert Department of Global Health, the EIMGRCC leverages the expertise of leading researchers at Emory University and the global network of ACSM/EIM members to achieve its overall goal of evaluating the real-life effectiveness of EIM implementation via standardized clinical-community linkages to prevent, manage and reverse the progression of chronic diseases.

EIM-GRCC Core Objectives:

Initiate and collaborate on research projects to advance the successful implementation and scale-up of EIM in the U.S. and globally, using implementation science, integrating objective PA assessments, patient-centered pragmatic trials, health IT applications, economic analyses, comparative effectiveness, policy, surveillance and health services tools.

Serve as a coordinating center for multi-center EIM implementation projects and offer state-of-the-art consultation and evaluation support to health systems and community care networks including the development and validation of effectiveness metrics, behavior change standards, monitoring frameworks and data collection, aggregation and interpretation needs, to objectively assess the EIM solution level of reach, effectiveness, adoption, implementation and maintenance, under a population health management framework.

Collaborate on the development and implementation of a sustainable model to educate the workforce necessary to implement EIM in the US and globally, including a training and certification curriculum for primary care providers and fitness professionals, on the basic concepts of PA and health and how to implement EIM in clinical-community settings.

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Campus Recognition Application

* University/School Name:

* Supervisor/Advisor of Campus Leadership Team:

* Campus Level:

Gold
Silver
Bronze

* How does your campus meet the level requirements:

Gold level recognition is the highest level of recognition and signifies the implementation of one or several components of the EIM Solution on the University campus, with the potential of extending into the local community. Community partnerships provide real world experience for students, while providing service to the local community.

Gold level campuses must assess physical activity as a vital sign.

A Gold level campus must also be engaged in at least (1) of the following:

* My campus has a computer-based system to track patient participation in physical activity interventions?

Yes
No

Other:

Silver level recognition includes activities related to awareness and promotion, and incorporates education for the university’s students, faculty, staff, and health care professionals, as well as those in the surrounding community, on EIM and its mission on campus. Silver campuses are actively engaged in educating others on the EIM solution for both the treatment and prevention of long-term illness and disease. University students are educated on the aims of EIM in health care, potentially certified as EIM health fitness professionals, and guided on how they can play a role in making physical activity an integral part of health care.

Silver level campuses must be engaged in at least (3) of the following:
* My campus hosts classes that teach students the fundamentals of EIM on Campus and their potential role in fulfilling the mission of EIM?

Yes
No

* My campus trains students to educate campus community members on EIM and the importance of physical activity as medicine?

Yes
No

* My campus works with campus health services so that every health care provider discusses physical activity with every patient or client?

Yes
No

Other:

Bronze level recognition is the first step in creating the EIM initiative on Campus. These campuses bring attention to the growing need for physical activity and take action in helping to create a healthier, more active campus environment.

Bronze level campuses create awareness of the importance of exercise and regular physical activity for health and promote exercise to students, faculty, staff and the community through engagement in any of the following activities. Bronze level campuses must engage in at least (3) of the following:

* My campus hosts events that promote physical activity?

Yes
No

* My campus markets events that encourage all campus members to discuss physical activity with their health care professional?

Yes
No

* My campus has created options for exercise that are easily accessible to the campus community?

Yes
No

* My campus has completed a Mayoral, Governor, or University President EIM on Campus Month Proclamation?